Pirates hijack a cargo ship with 24 aboard

Pirates hijacked a Panama cargo ship and crew on Wednesday with rocket-propelled grenades in the Gulf of Aden, European Union Navfor anti-piracy mission said. The 24 members of crew hail from Bangladesh, Ghana, Egypt and Pakistan.

Reuters

The owner of the MV QSM Dubai reported the hijacking in the early hours of Wednesday, saying that the pirates had boarded the ship and taken control.

Navfor said a US warship had been patrolling the waters and saw someone get on to the ship with a rocket-propelled grenade. After flying over the ship, they concluded it had been hijacked.

The 15,220-tonne ship was coming from Brazil.